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From: sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Status on discussed merge between NetBSD and FreeBSD
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
References: <JKH.93Nov13222001.2@whisker.lotus.ie> <2c60p5$p6v@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <2c61k1$j2p@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <DERAADT.93Nov14120145@pain.agate>
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Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1993 20:42:07 GMT
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In article <DERAADT.93Nov14120145@pain.agate> deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) writes:
>The claims that attribution has been done correctly are quite false.

That's okay, I don't find my name anywhere in the ptrace code I wrote.

I also was never asked permission before it was placed for redistribution.

Hasn't stopped you guys from distributing it, now has it?  Frankly, it
doesn't bother me.  I wrote the code so people could use it, and because
the old code was pretty stupid.

As for the yp stuff... just looking at the CVS logs on freefall, it
appears that either your name is in the copyright messages for everything,
or the log comment says, "Imported from NetBSD."

That's no more or less than you have done.